Engineering Manager Interview Experience - Foster City, California
Process
Lengthy 3-month interview process. I cleared all screening and technical rounds. Then, I had an interview with the VP and Director at the last step.
Got rejected. I received feedback that my growth plans and ambition/needs were misaligned with the company's needs. I guess I was more ambitious than they liked.
What a waste of time. Could have asked me about my plans in the beginning and rejected me right there instead of wasting months of their time and mine!
Questions
Overall medium difficulty.
~2 weeks of prep is sufficient.
- Why do you want to join Zoox?
- Standard HR questions: what would you do in case of a conflict, how do you handle disagreement etc.
- Design a ride-hailing system for the Zoox fleet.
- (C++) Find the intersection and union of two arrays of integers.
- Brain teasers, math puzzles (medium difficulty).
- Geometry questions (distance from line to point, distance from plane to 3D point).
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Zoox Engineering Manager role in Foster City, California.
Success Rate
Zoox's interview process for their Engineering Manager roles in Foster City, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Zoox's Engineering Manager interview process in Foster City, California.
Zoox Work Experiences
- 4.0First dollar, any day now..Engineering Manager • Current EmployeeFoster City, California, United StatesMay 22, 2025Pros: - Working on an exciting tangible product/service - Entire company working on one product - Good pedigree of engineers, best practices, and tools - Excellent food - Very employee well-being focused upper managementCons: - Entire company working on one product - Profitability unclear - Risky business - one bad accident could derail the whole thing (think Cruise, Uber)
- 1.0Poor experience working at ZooxEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeFoster City, California, United StatesOctober 15, 2024Pros: - Cool tech; you get to be part of a company building the future of transportation. - Good food.Cons: Constantly changing management on the software engineering side. Bad HR practices. Don't say anything negative about management or HR. Deadlines are a joke. The company hasn't figured out how to launch anything. Low diversity in engineering & management.
- 5.0Care about employeesEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeNovember 20, 2022Pros: Cutting-edge technology, smart people.Cons: 401K match missing for now.
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